On Saturday 08 May 2004 20:43, Brad Boyer wrote: > On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 11:56:46PM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote: > > The setup fails to make the disk bootable because ofpath cannot hack my > > scsi device (sym53c8xx) > >
> > Are you actually trying to boot from a drive on your sym53c8xx card? If > so, this is almost certainly wrong. The "scsi" device name is normally > an alias to the built-in controller, either mesh or 53c94 depending on > the exact model. For a PCI card, you'll need a direct path. Take a look > at /proc/device-tree while you're in Linux and see where it shows up. > Well dmesg | grep scsi gives me: scsi0: sym53c8xx-1.7.1-20000726 scsi1: MESH scsi : 2 hosts Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, chabbel 0, id 0, lin 0 scsi : detected 1 SCSI generic 1 SCSI disk total And ofpath /dev/sda2 gives ofpath: Driver sym53c8xx is not supported I don't know what I am supposed to be looking for under that proc interface though :) Adrian
